-Arokium’s attorney tells Top Cop
The attorney representing Leonard Arokium, the Lindo Creek mining camp owner, has written to acting Police Commissioner Henry Greene saying he has received credible and verifiable information that the mobile phone of one of the men killed at the camp continues to be in active use.
In the letter which this newspaper has seen, attorney at law Nigel Hughes said information has revealed that the mobile phone owned by Dax Arokium, which he had in his possession at the time of the June murders, has been in active use since the Lindo Creek crime scene ceased to be secured by the joint services.
Further, Hughes told Greene that independent investigations have also revealed that the use of the mobile phone continued even after Rondell `Fineman’ Rawlins was killed last month. Rawlins had been accused of masterminding the slaughter of the eight men.
Hughes said he was instructed to alert the commissioner of the development as this may prove to be of “some use in continued investigations into the murders.” This newspaper has since learnt that many of the calls made from the mobile phone have been traced to several persons and homes in Linden.
If confirmed the user of the phone could have critical information on what happened at Camp Lindo. The persons to whom the calls were made would also be important.
Leonard Arokium has argued that the killings could not have been done by `Fineman’ and he has said he believes that elements of the joint services were behind the killings.
Arokium stumbled on what appeared to be the burnt remains of his eight workers which included his son and brother Dax and Cecil Arokium. Police from the outset had blamed the killings on `Fineman’ and his gang but Arokium has argued that it would defy all logic for `Fineman’ and his men to have done it if indeed they were the ones who had fled from Christmas Falls on June 6.
If they had fled Christmas Falls they would have retreated across the Berbice River. To execute the Lindo Creek massacre they would have had to re-cross the Berbice River – something that would have posed logistical challenges – travel 10 miles and moreover they would have had to sweep past police and army units who had swarmed the area in the aftermath of June 6 to get to the Lindo Creek camp.
Arokium, convinced that the Joint Services were behind the Lindo massacre, has argued that the Joint Services knew where his camp was as they had shared supplies with some of his workers before, including his son, Dax.
The police have since denied the essence of some of the conversations that Arokium had said he had about this and were willing to present a witness who would substantiate their version. The police said in a press release “The guards at the UNAMCO gate and the camp attendant at No.69 mining camp were contacted and they have all denied speaking to Mr Arokium, much less telling him any of the stories he related”. No witness has since been presented by the police even though they have said that they have one which they have referred to as an eyewitness/suspect. This was some weeks back but the person has not been presented to the public or charged.
The police have since been very tightlipped on their investigations, with only the assurance that they were continuing. However they have since said that ballistic tests link the weapons found in the possession of Rawlins and Jermaine `Skinny’ Charles, when they were shot and killed at Kuru Kururu on the Linden/ Soesdyke Highway, to the massacres at Lindo Creek, Lusignan and Bartica and several other murders.
